Game apparatus



HEQZZQG Sept 2 1924.

A. D. NEWMAN GAME APPARATUS 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed June 5. 1921 fluyus? D Newman INVENTOR ATTORNEY A. D. NEWMAN GAME APPARATUS Filed June 5. 1921 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR fluyusz D-Neurman ATTOR N E Y Patented Sept. 2, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST DUMPE NEWMAN, OF CANGAI, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA.

- GAME APPARATUS.

Application fil ed .Tune 3, 1921.

. .This invention relates to games, and more especially it is a moving target, the target proper being made in simulation of a person or object which one player desires to hit by means of a ball or projectile, and the target being swung from side to side or caused to dodge byanother player.

Details of the idea are more fully brought out in the following specification and claims, and are shown in the drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a front elevation of the target, showing the same in full lines. as exposed and dotted lines as housed.

Figure 2 is a side elevation.

Figure 3 is an enlarged front elevation of the hub. I

Figures & and 5 are details in side elevation showing the main shaft and the target and tail as in several positions.

Figure 6 is a rear elevation of the tail.

The frame 1 is of openwork structure which will doubtless have a base and front and rear ends, but at its front it should have two lateral wings or guides 1 provided with guards 2 preferably diverging from a central disk 3 which latter hides and protects a hub and its mechanism is yet to be described. Through this disk and the rear side of the frame is ournaled the main shaft 4 having near its front end a structure which I will call a hub 5 and adjacent to. or perhaps forming part of the same a polygonal button 6 against which bears a spring 7 so that the free rotation of the shaft is prevented, and on the contrary it will be held by yielding force in any position in which it is set. The hub is here shown as made up of two spaced plates connected to the shaft by rivets 8, and between these plates above the shaft is pivoted at 9 the lower end of a target 10 which is here shown as in the shape of an upstanding paddle preferably provided with a head and made in derisive imitation of a national enemy to this country; and a spring 11 carried by the shaft 4 bears upward against the target below the pivot 9 and holds said tar et either upright as seen in Figures 1 and 2 or folded as seen in Figure 5. Below the shaft there Serial No. 474,668.

is pivoted between the two plates of the hub at 12 a pendent tail 13 which is usually held rigid by means of a set screw 14, although the latter may be withdrawn when the tail is to be folded up against the shaft as seen in Figure 5. It is important to note that the front or exposed face of this tail is substantially wedge-shaped, being made in two halves which diverge from a median upright line rearwardly toward the edges of the tail itself. It is also important to note that the target. and the tail are directly opposite each other, whereas the two guards 2 are a little above the axial center. When now the target is turned as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 1, it will be hidden behind one of the guards while the tail is 821- Instead of relying upon a nickel hitting the tail to cause the target to dodge, the disk 3 may be provided with a pair of oppositely disposed apertures 16 through which a pair of strings 17 pass. One end of each string is secured to the tail while the opposite end of the string is controlled by one of the stops whereby the target may be caused to dodge thereby rendering it difficult for the performer to strike the target.

The manner of playing this game is as follows Two operators are provided with balls or missiles which they are to throw, or perhaps they may shoot at the target if it is made of material which will stand the impact of bullets and the like. We will call one player the aggressor. It is his object to hit the target, and when he does he will obviously knock it over to the position shown in Figure 4. until it reaches the position shown in Figure 5, when he wins the game. It is the object of the other player, who may be called the defender, to prevent his opponent from hitting the target. This he does by throwing at the tail, and when his missile strikes on the right half of the tail he will swing the latter to the left, and thereby cause the target to dodge or when his missile strikes on the left half he will cause the target to dodge in the opposite direction. It may be that extremely good marksmanship will enable him to swing the target to the position shown in dotted lines in Figure 1, when he will have the target completely housed behind the left hand guard so that his opponent cannot hit it at all; and in the latter case he has won the game, unless meanwhile hisopponent has hit the target and knocked it'over back as above suggested. The game affords much amusement, besides calling for marksmanship and giving practice to the eye, points which go to, make up a good soldier.

What is claimed as new is 1. In a game apparatus, the combination With a frame of open work structure, a disk mounted at the center of said frame, a rigid guard leading from said disk totlresides-of said frame, and stops carried said guard, of a rotatable main shaft journalled in the disk in the rear of said frame, an upstanding target mounted on said shaft and adapted to fold upon said shaft, the longitudinal axis of said target being parallel to the longitudinal axis of said shaft and means fixed to said shaft which when struck will cause said shaft to rock whereby said guard "may hide said target.

2. In a game apparatus, the combination with a frame of op'enwork structure, a disk mounted at the center of "said frame, rigid guards leading from said disk to the sides of said frame, and, stops carried by said guard, of a-main'shaft journalle'd in the disk in the rear of said frame, upstanding spaced ears carried by said shaft, a target pivotally mounted between said ears and adapted "to fall down upon said shaft when struck, means to "normally hold said target in a vertical position, a second pair of spaced ears depending from said shaft, a tail mounted between said ears and having "a wedge-shaped forward face, which when struck will cause said shaft to rock so as to hide said target between either of sand guards, and a pair of pins for holdingsaid tail between said ears one *'or--w11.i-ci --may be removed so that said, tail heffol'ded "over upon said shaft to an inoperative position when desired. g 3, In a game "apparatus, the combination with a fraiheb'ifi open work structure, a disk mounted at thecenter or said frame, rigid guards leading "from said disk "to the sides of said frame, and stops carried 'b" said guards, of a shaft journaled in the c-isk in the rear of said frame, upstanding spaced ears carried by said shaft, a target pivotally mounted between said ears and adapted to fall down upo'n said shaft when struck, means to normally hold said target in a vertical position, and means fix'ed t'osaid shaft Which when struck will cause said shaft to rock whereby said guards will hide "said target all in the manner and for thefpurpose specified. H

AUGUST DUMPE NEVMiX-N.

Witnesses F. T. DOBERER, Jane's Pkrniiso'u'. 

